Angelfish56
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I want to change my freshwater 15 gallon to a brackish crab tank so it wouldn't that full how would I do that
I want to change my freshwater 15 gallon to a brackish crab tank so it wouldn't that full how would I do that
Very few stores keep them with any salt, that I've found, so it may be impossible to match. What I do, is start with SG of 1.004 and acclimate the crabs slowly to that. Then over the next month or so, I slowly increase it to 1.008. I wouldn't worry much about this process or their acclimation. In nature, salinity fluctuates and they really aren't very sensitive to it. The first time I set up a brackish tank, I took my fiddlers from a FW tank, and dumped them in the BW tank on the land part, I let them decide when they wanted to go in the water. I had no probs with the crabs. So with a SG of 1.004, you could probably do it that way as well if you wanted. I almost think it's better than way since they aren't really aquatic crabs..they prefer air a lot of the time.
As I said in the other thread they do well with java fern, which is a good option for brackish. I've only had them pick apart and eat one plant, a sort of lacey one, that I now know is not aquatic anyway so won't have that problem again. Otherwise, I've never had issues with them destroying plants.